On Thursday 18 March 2004 11:28 am, Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Mar 17, 2004, at 5:31 PM, GDB-2mosMDK92 wrote: > > Let me start at the beginning for those who have not heard this sad > > tale > > before. > > They're called paragraph breaks son, learn to use them occasionally! ;-) >
Gee, okay dad! > > Bought a Beige 266 Mhz G3 off Ebay (final rev mobo). It came with > > 96 Mb of RAM and a Fujitsu 3.2 Gb HD with OS 9.2.2 installed. Came > > with a > > standard sound card and I bought a Wings AV card for it. Meantime I > > installed the mobo, drives and Wings card in a standard PC ATX case. > > Took > > out the 3.2 Gb HD and installed a 20 Gb Maxtor HD. Installed OSX > > (10.2.8 > > after update) and more RAM (now 160 Mb). Seemed to work fine. > > Downloaded > > and installed several programs which all seemed to work pretty well. > > Then you went and fixed what wasn't broke :-P If you can't tinker with a computer, what good are they? > > Next > > I tried the OSX HD all alone on the IDE cable and could not get it to > > boot. > > Tried all kinds of different setups with one of the 2 drives which > > would boot > > and the OSX drive, but at no time could I get the OSX drive to boot. > > On a beige we had if the OSX drive was on the bus by itself, it had to > be set to nothing on the master/slave/Cable select jumpers or the thing > wouldn't boot. Okay, realize I'm coming from the world of PC's, but there things work the same way most all of the time. If it works that way one time it will work exactly the same way as long as nothing else has changed. This drive booted fine before in this configuration. Are Mac's different? > Otherwise I'd look to the jumper settings, make the drive at the far > end of the cable master, and the middle slave, try swapping busses, and > finally take a good hard look at the pins on that OSX drive, with all > the drive swapping it's possible you've bent or broken one of them. I think what I'm mainly asking here is what affect did resetting the P-RAM have, does this somehow change the way the machine should boot? With the OSX drive on the end of the cable and set to master and the OS 9.2.2 drive in the middle set to slave, it will boot to OS 9.2.2 every time. Also just FYI, when the IDE standard was introduced on PC's way back when, the debate on whether or not it mattered where the master/slave resided on the cable was a hot topic for awhile. Turns out it didn't matter. Again, are Mac's different? Thanks for all your help Bruce. > > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- Just a message from Doug... -------------------------------------------- http://users.adelphia.net/~slugg0/index.html -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
